Pinckneyville, Alabama

Pinckneyville, also spelled as Pinkneyville, is an unincorporated community in Clay County, Alabama, United States.

Pinckneyville, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Pinckneyville, Alabama
Pinckneyville, Alabama
Coordinates: 33°06′24″N 85°57′33″W
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyClay
Elevation
761 ft (232 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)256 & 938
GNIS feature ID156888[1]

History

Pinckneyville was named in honor of Thomas Pinckney. At one point, Pinckneyville was home to two churches, a general store, two grist mills, and a cotton gin. A group of men from Pinckneyville were mustered into Hilliard's Legion.[2] A post office operated under the name Pinckneyville from 1840 to 1903.[3]

A type of granodiorite known as Pinckneyville granite is found in the area and named for Pinckneyville.[4]

gollark: This furniture budget thing probably doesn't add up to a significant amount of the total spend, so it's a bad comparison.
gollark: Apparently American healthcare spending is something like 17% of GDP for some insane reason. So it would be a big fraction of the government budget, if they ran it as efficiently as it currently operated.
gollark: Possibly. Paying people if they want to move out seems more reasonable than doing stupid things to local property markets, or whatever, or adjusting taxes so those already there can afford it.
gollark: That doesn't mean the cost can't/shouldn't be *reduced*.
gollark: Instead of incentivizing people to stay there and driving up the price.

References
  1. "Pinckneyville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. East, Don. A Historical Analysis of the Creek Indian Hillabee Towns. iUniverse, Inc. p. 130-3. ISBN 978-1-4401-0163-2.
  3. "Clay County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  4. Lexicon of Geologic Names of the United States: A-L. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1938. p. 1661.



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